Day: December 16, 2018

It’s not as much a tussle as much as it is a boxing match; the dodging and weaving like swerving into traffic.The reason people must inevitably bury themselves is the same as why full stops must be full. You know the steps by heart:here is an empty space to be filled. Here is a name erased. Here is another lie for you to be placed in. Graves, too, must be full. You are boxing yourselfinto a coffin. Your heart is full of mud.Here is an empty filling to be spaced out,crossed out, placed outside of the boxesand the self. Here is a list of instructionsfor the heart to erase. Here is the box thatgot the trafficker hung, here is the weave of an executioner’s mask, the judge’s wig, here is the tussle you will bind yourself in,the bullet you will learn to dodge.

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Inspired by real life conversations. I’m back on my bullshit of trying to bang out drafts in a single 10 minute sitting. Old title: “Springboard”